Today is my 1st Birthday and my mom helped me celebrate with peanut butter cake and a photo shoot at the local gardens! She says that I am the most adorable dachshund in the world and wanted me to share my photos. Thanks for the awesome blog-- my mom shows me the pictures and photos every day without fail! Hope you enjoy my garden photos as much as I enjoyed smelling all the flowers! Gotta run, I got to grab another piece of cake!

-Sir Samson the Stout

PS: I also am including a photo from when I was 3 days old!..Look how big I've gotten!

Samson is registered as a black and tan dapple. His coloring is very unique--a lot of his dapple disappeared as he got older, but a little is left on his flank and his chest. His main colors now are kind of a dark chocolate with very faint tan markings.

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